.NET Core Job Trends in England

.NET Core
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring .NET Core skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 299 242 128
Rank change year-on-year -57 -114 -11
Permanent jobs citing .NET Core 346 579 1,233
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.66% 1.20% 2.48%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 5.62% 5.59% 10.18%
Number of salaries quoted 320 408 1,176
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £40,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,875 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% - -8.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

.NET Core falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,158 10,364 12,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.79% 21.55% 24.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4,735 6,085 10,182
10th Percentile £36,100 £41,250 £40,059
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,348 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £109,875
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

.NET Core
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing .NET Core relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

.NET Core job vacancy trend in England

.NET Core
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing .NET Core

.NET Core
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing .NET Core in England over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for .NET Core in England

.NET Core
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing .NET Core within the England region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +23 110 £75,000 +7.14% 57
North of England -35 97 £55,000 - 56
North West +22 63 £55,000 -2.22% 33
South East -36 49 £57,500 +6.48% 84
Midlands -15 45 £65,000 +23.81% 35
East Midlands -10 33 £65,000 +26.83% 21
South West +10 27 £52,500 -23.64% 21
Yorkshire -45 23 £40,000 -20.00% 12
West Midlands -9 12 £45,000 -14.29% 14
East of England -12 12 £60,000 +20.00% 31
North East -7 11 £52,500 +16.67% 11
.NET Core
UK

.NET Core
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (1.45%) Confluence
1 5 (1.45%) IIS
2 2 (0.58%) CMS
2 2 (0.58%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.29%) Kentico
3 1 (0.29%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.58%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.58%) ION Anvil
Cloud Services
1 231 (66.76%) Azure
2 86 (24.86%) AWS
3 56 (16.18%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (10.98%) Serverless
5 30 (8.67%) GitHub
6 20 (5.78%) GitHub Actions
7 18 (5.20%) Power Platform
8 17 (4.91%) SaaS
9 15 (4.34%) Azure Service Bus
10 14 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (4.05%) Amazon S3
10 14 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (4.05%) AWS Step Functions
10 14 (4.05%) Azure Functions
11 13 (3.76%) Amazon EventBridge
11 13 (3.76%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (3.76%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (3.47%) Azure App Service
13 10 (2.89%) Azure AKS
13 10 (2.89%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.45%) Internet
2 1 (0.29%) HTTP
2 1 (0.29%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (36.13%) SQL Server
2 50 (14.45%) MongoDB
3 47 (13.58%) Azure SQL Database
4 33 (9.54%) NoSQL
5 25 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (5.78%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (4.05%) MySQL
8 13 (3.76%) DynamoDB
8 13 (3.76%) Relational Database
9 8 (2.31%) Power BI
10 6 (1.73%) NonStop SQL
10 6 (1.73%) Redis
11 5 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.87%) MariaDB
12 3 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.29%) Amazon Athena
13 1 (0.29%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 55 (15.90%) Git
2 14 (4.05%) Visual Studio
3 11 (3.18%) JIRA
4 7 (2.02%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.45%) MSTest
5 5 (1.45%) NUnit
6 3 (0.87%) GitLab
6 3 (0.87%) JMeter
6 3 (0.87%) Postman
6 3 (0.87%) Selenium
6 3 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (0.58%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.58%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.29%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (0.29%) NSubstitute
8 1 (0.29%) Sourcetree
8 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.29%) Vite
8 1 (0.29%) webpack
General
1 41 (11.85%) Finance
2 39 (11.27%) Social Skills
3 16 (4.62%) Law
4 13 (3.76%) Public Sector
5 9 (2.60%) Games
5 9 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (2.60%) Retail
6 8 (2.31%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (2.31%) Legal
7 6 (1.73%) Advertising
8 5 (1.45%) Front Office
9 4 (1.16%) Banking
10 3 (0.87%) Back Office
10 3 (0.87%) Marketing
10 3 (0.87%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.58%) Local Government
11 2 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.29%) Automotive
12 1 (0.29%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 260 (75.14%) Developer
2 137 (39.60%) .NET Developer
3 86 (24.86%) Senior
4 80 (23.12%) Software Developer
5 64 (18.50%) C# Developer
6 59 (17.05%) Senior Developer
7 45 (13.01%) Full-Stack Developer
8 40 (11.56%) Lead
9 37 (10.69%) Software Engineer
10 31 (8.96%) C# .NET Developer
11 24 (6.94%) Senior .NET Developer
12 22 (6.36%) Lead Developer
12 22 (6.36%) React Developer
13 21 (6.07%) Senior C# Developer
14 20 (5.78%) Azure Developer
14 20 (5.78%) C# Software Developer
14 20 (5.78%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
15 19 (5.49%) Senior Software Developer
16 18 (5.20%) .NET Software Engineer
17 16 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 346 (100.00%) .NET
2 142 (41.04%) ASP.NET
3 107 (30.92%) React
4 87 (25.14%) .NET Framework
5 81 (23.41%) AngularJS
6 68 (19.65%) RESTful
7 63 (18.21%) HTML
8 58 (16.76%) Entity Framework
9 56 (16.18%) CSS
10 55 (15.90%) ASP.NET MVC
11 51 (14.74%) ASP.NET Web API
12 50 (14.45%) Blazor
13 40 (11.56%) Vue
14 38 (10.98%) ASP.NET Core
15 37 (10.69%) Node.js
16 29 (8.38%) HTML5
17 23 (6.65%) REST
18 17 (4.91%) CSS3
19 15 (4.34%) LINQ
20 13 (3.76%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.69%) Cloud Native
2 15 (4.34%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (3.47%) AI Agents
3 12 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.31%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 7 (2.02%) Digital TV
6 7 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.73%) 3D Graphics
7 6 (1.73%) Product Ownership
8 5 (1.45%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.45%) Fixed Income
8 5 (1.45%) Mobile App
9 4 (1.16%) Distributed Computing
10 3 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.87%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.87%) Sports Betting
10 3 (0.87%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.58%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.87%) Windows
2 2 (0.58%) Linux
3 1 (0.29%) Android
3 1 (0.29%) VMS
3 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (43.64%) Agile
2 138 (39.88%) Full-Stack Development
3 110 (31.79%) Microservices
4 107 (30.92%) CI/CD
5 88 (25.43%) DevOps
6 85 (24.57%) Software Engineering
7 76 (21.97%) MVC
8 47 (13.58%) Containerisation
9 45 (13.01%) Clean Code
10 44 (12.72%) Continuous Improvement
10 44 (12.72%) Scrum
11 40 (11.56%) Problem-Solving
11 40 (11.56%) SDLC
12 37 (10.69%) TDD
13 33 (9.54%) Mentoring
14 32 (9.25%) Infrastructure as Code
15 29 (8.38%) OO
16 27 (7.80%) AI
17 25 (7.23%) BDD
17 25 (7.23%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 302 (87.28%) C#
2 146 (42.20%) SQL
3 130 (37.57%) JavaScript
4 60 (17.34%) TypeScript
5 24 (6.94%) Python
6 10 (2.89%) Rust
7 9 (2.60%) T-SQL
8 7 (2.02%) PowerShell
9 6 (1.73%) Bicep
10 5 (1.45%) Java
11 3 (0.87%) Bash
11 3 (0.87%) Erlang
11 3 (0.87%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.58%) XAML
13 1 (0.29%) C++
13 1 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 34 (9.83%) Degree
2 13 (3.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (3.18%) AWS Certification
3 11 (3.18%) AWS Certified Developer
4 10 (2.89%) Security Cleared
5 8 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (2.31%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.73%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.45%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.62%) QA
2 9 (2.60%) Accessibility
3 7 (2.02%) WCAG
4 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.29%) GDPR
4 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 70 (20.23%) Docker
2 1 (0.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (13.01%) Kubernetes
2 35 (10.12%) Terraform
3 2 (0.58%) Ansible
4 1 (0.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 113 (32.66%) Microsoft
2 6 (1.73%) Facebook
2 6 (1.73%) YouTube
3 4 (1.16%) Dynatrace
3 4 (1.16%) Google
4 3 (0.87%) Databricks
5 2 (0.58%) CA Agile Central
5 2 (0.58%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (0.58%) Foundry
5 2 (0.58%) ION Trading
5 2 (0.58%) Oracle
6 1 (0.29%) IBM
6 1 (0.29%) IONA
6 1 (0.29%) Okta
6 1 (0.29%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow